Sentences with phrase «in the straw of»

«Some processed foods have quite ingenious ways of probiotic administration — for example, probiotics in the straw of a beverage and probiotics in yogurt - flavored balls in breakfast cereals.»

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With Clinton by his side, Buffett told the crowd that his «final straw» was Trump's critical response to the Muslim parents of a decorated U.S. soldier killed by a bomb in Iraq 12 years ago.

What some experts are doing is putting up a straw man, pointing to those extreme cases in which some people let the development of the business plan become an end in itself — something that gets in the way of business rather than helping to optimize it.

McDonald's, which is on a big environmental kick of late, says it will phase out the use of plastic straws in its U.K. restaurants.

Whether your team is located with you or working out of a straw hut in Africa, the technology available today makes it easier to not only stay up to date but also ahead of the entrepreneurial power curve.

In the late 1980s Pizza Hut bought the franchise operation and most of the franchises but some Straw Hat franchisees didn't sell.

Golfman and his team spent 14 years conducting R&D before arriving at a product, manufactured in India and made primarily of wheat - straw fibre, that achieved the trifecta of high quality, high environmental integrity and affordability.

Ultimately, that's a straw - man argument that has been made in the face of every new advance in communications technology.

But they are like listening to someone who drew the short straw in a high school debate and had to argue the positive effects of indentured servitude.

If you're looking at straw - colored lions walking in straw - colored grass in Africa, after three days of filming you see them really well.

Are you related to one of the 2,293 people who voted for Tim Pawlenty in the Iowa Straw poll?

We must resign on behalf of America's working people, who reject all notions of legitimacy of these bigoted groups,» Trumka said in the statement, calling Trump's most recent remarks «the last straw.»

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«Now it depends solely on your good sense and your way of life whether you die as an ordinary musician, utterly forgotten by the world, or as a famous kapellmeister, or whom posterity will read... whether, captured by some woman, you die bedded on straw in an attic full of starving children, or whether, after a Christian life spent in contentment, honor, and renown, you leave this world with your family well provided for and your name respected by all.»

In reality, they are straw men for corporate performance measurement with no real connection to the economics of the business.

And the furnishings and inexpensive objets d'art we had gathered and taken care of for over a decade — and artfully arranged in our new setting, because my husband and I share those sensibilities — were the last straw!!

In reality, they are straw men for corporate performance with no real connection to the economics of the business.

Still, it is quite common for rich and famous home buyers to use straw entities created by wealth managers and family offices to make purchases, a scenario typically employed to ensure anonymity (or some semblance of it, anyway) while limiting liability in the case of unforeseen financial or legal woes.

In «Ontario's Tax on the Rich: Grasping at Straw Men,» Associate Director of Research Alexandre Laurin finds taxpayers» behavioural responses will reduce revenue over the long run by more than the province can expect to collect from the tax hike.

Eagles roost on tall pines, muskrats burrow in mounds of mud and straw, and black ducks splash in a pond.

«That was the last straw,» she said, noting she had become increasingly disenchanted with the company after reading of its embrace of Werner Erhard's controversial Landmark Forum, and its 2007 run - in with the Competition Bureau that forced it to back down on claims that some of its clothes contained an ingredient with therapeutic attributes.

That did not last long as the controversies piled up high in the wake of an explosive blog post by a former female engineer, Susan Fowler, who has become the straw that broke Uber's bro back.

The classic straw - man argument, which unfortunately is quite common in this neck of the woods.

it is so easy for even a first year theology students to show all the errors of reasoning and the straw men in most of the author's statements.

To say that one can find good things in the bible qualifies it as a source of higher, transcendental wisdom is grabbing at straws.

CORRECTION: «To say that one can find good things in the bible qualifies it as a source of higher, transcendental wisdom is grabbing at straws.»

Should read: «Saying that because one can find good things in the bible qualifies it as a source of higher, transcendental wisdom is grabbing at straws.»

Others, such as the chapter on «objections» to the claim that we can be certain of at least some moral knowledge, are written in dialogue form, opening the way for hostile critics to suggest that Budziszewski constructs and demolishes his own straw men.

Instead of critiquing the straw man accusation in this instance on its merits, instead you «appealed to ridicule,» mocking the concept itself, as if by mocking the concept, «magically» (your word choice) people will no longer see the straw men we employ, and we can continue with our sophistries unchecked.

I see straw men employed all the time, most frequently with the topics of politics and religion, and if you haven't seen it, well, I'm not sure I would have much faith in your sense of discernment.

Sit in the straw, in a circle of flickering candles, and feel the illuminating awe of God's Word through the unfurling of the greatest love story ever told — Christmas's full love story, right from the beginning of His - Story, like you've never quite heard it told before.

A definite baby squalls into life, skids out between the legs of a definite woman, bedded in straw, on the longest night of the year.

«A straw man or straw person, also known in the UK as an Aunt Sally, [1][2] is a type of argument and is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position.

a prayer is not voicing something as in the rest of the town meetings... you are grasping at straws...

Read up on basic evolutionary theory to understand your «blob» questions (though you did a straw man perversion of the concept in a lame attempt to discredit it without actually getting an answer).

So, their arguments against Christianity are almost always a large collection of straw arguments and very basic misreadings of texts, because they are taken in isolation.

I'm sorry that you're not ready yet to discuss this in a rational, calm, dispassionate, and intellectually honest manner that doesn't resort to making straw - man arguments out of the other side's positions.

It just seems to me you are in a struggle to define yourself and taking shots at a bunch of straw men.

Perhaps few or none of the people at Belbury knew what was happening; but once it happened, they would be like straw in fire.

Even in educated circles the possibility of more sophisticated theologies of creation is easily obscured by burning straw effigies of biblical literalism.

On Christmas Eve, the baby Jesus appeared in his bed of straw, the shepherds moved closer to pay homage and an angel arrived to watch over the scene.

Second, your account of Noah is just a straw - man attack, and in fact Canada.com published an article regarding evidence to support a global flood that was revealed in Canada.

We hoped that, in an age of angry online diatribes and weekly public burnings of straw - man arguments, it might be possible to genuinely understand an opposing point of view.

«The Gish Gallop, named after creationist Duane Gish, is the debating technique of drowning the opponent in such a torrent of half - truths, lies, and straw - man arguments that the opponent can not possibly answer every falsehood in real time.

I am perpetually fighting against straw men in this blog, where so many act like the OT Israelites just got bored, and decide, out of the blue to make up «scape - goating» to engage in genocide in the name of God.

Most of these self - proclaimed scientists have no idea what creationism stands for and are very adept at knocking over a straw man which exists ony in their own mind.

In a striking example combining metaphor and humor, Koko made a joke about being a «sad elephant» because she was reduced to drinking water through a thick rubber straw as a solution to her constant nagging one morning for more drinks of juice (IULG 534).

It was the murder of 75 - year - old Tom Repchic that was the final straw for Father Greg Maturi, a Dominican priest in Youngstown, Ohio.

In his argument, he posits a definition of «machine» that is something of a straw man (or straw machine, I should say).

While her male captures are playing games she uses their distraction and the darkness of night to slip through a hole she's found under the straw in her cell.